The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-05-07

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more so than Broadway.
It is a street of theatres, great beer gardens,
hotels, lodging.houscs md museums. The
cast side Of New York, Of which the Dowcry
is the gateway, could not begin to support
it. All. Of New York city could not sup
rort it.
New Workers never lose their interest in
this queer section of tho city. Men and
women, boys and girls, Of every class, make
periodical visits there, particularly in the
evenings, but not to spend money and sci.
dom to enter any Of the houses. The hustle
and din Of railroads overhead and OH the
ground, and the swecpingtorrcnts Of human
ity upon the sidewalks, are sources OF never
ending interest, even to our, citizens. Even
a police c~aptain, John Mccullough, Of the fn-
nous Sixth precinct, told mo tho other day
that he liked to stand in front! of the Atlantic
Garden, md watch the throng.
ut would pay YOU" he said, Ito stand
from ten o'clock ut night until two ii. the
morning, If you have the patience, Just toscc
tho people. Now YOU sect man you know
to. be worth 100000 walking apparently
aimlcssly along; he is followed by q nutori-
Gus burglar, and no by n %wcll-known clergy.
man. Tramps and crooks and courtcsans
and undoubted ladies' of more than comfort.
able circumstances elbow one another in n
sudden Sthickening of the crowd. There is
nothing like that crowd anywhere else i'll
the city"
Suppose, instead of standing still, That the
reader takes a rapid walk with mo along this
highway Of 1cdlam. a noisy baud causes
you to turn your head and you SEQ q museum
literally hidden behind great canvas paint.
ings Of, serpcnts, fat women, monstrositics
ind fjugslers. Behind these paintings the
band is concealed and under them is the.
doorway, in which, a man with tho loudest
voice YOU ever heard is bidding the crowdtoJ
''walk right III; only n dime" Don'tdoit
unless you have n city man with YOU, for
thiseis n trap for the unwnry. The main
profits sof TINT establishment nre gotten by
fleeing strangers, and tho manner in
whichith swindling is done is so auda-
cious that,no one could guard against It OK
ccpt:b by having nothing whatever to do with
the place. For instance, You arc asked to
allow aphrcnologist to feel your head or you
arc invited to step into Q little box and have
your, fortune told. When you enter you are
led to believe that tho, operation is to cost
nothing, but just, as you arc about,to, come
away AZ little tbonrd in one of the walls: is
skillfullytnrned and n sign is displayed an
nonnripg: '.Fec for, examination; 81" The
~rascals cannot force you to pay this, but
they tell their victims thcywill clubithem,o OF!
thrush them if they don't pay, md nine.
yrccnhorns in ten pay gladly. to get out into
the welcome dir Of the street again. You
will sec other: museums us YOU stroll up tho,
street; something like half "a dozen Of them.
Unless you nre Anew Yorker you, cannot;
tell which are honest and which are traps.
Their signs arc very ingenious md interest
ing Just nov One is holding a beauty show.
In another tho famous "Whnt-is.it2 y, SO long,
with Barnum, is employed to give a boxing,
match every hour with another freak 5oI
African mature called .the, N Madagascar Gnu.
linibal.', Further along the street is what is,